Communications and Networking for Smart Grid: Technology and Practice
1Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA
2Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
3Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN, USA
4University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Communications and Networking for Smart Grid: Technology and Practice
Description
The drive for improved power system efficiency, stability, and flexibility has served as a catalyst for smart grid research and development; so the communications networks in smart grid must facilitate the wide-scale utilization of distributed and renewable energy sources, real-time granular system health measurement, rapid outage detection, the provision of real-time pricing information to consumers, and the deployment of demand response schemes which incorporate both industrial and home users. However, many open issues in communications and networking need to be addressed by researchers.
This special issue seeks submissions from academia and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of communication systems for smart grid, as well as case studies and implementation experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Protocol interoperability (e.g., IP, ANSI C12.22, and DNP3)
- QoS architectures
- Cyber and physical security and privacy
- Scalability
- Communication for distributed and renewable generation
- Home area networking (Zigbee, OpenHAN, etc.), wireless mesh networking, and neighborhood area networks
- Wireless communication architectures for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)
- Real-time pricing and demand response
- Smart grid network management
- SCADA, wide area monitoring, protection, control, and automation messaging protocols and systems
- Green routing and switching protocols
- Real-time fault detection, isolation and recovery, real-time load balancing, granular system health monitoring, and self-healing
- Time synchronization for smart grid devices
- Transport and application layer protocols and mechanisms for smart grid information dissemination applications (e.g., SCTP)
- Middleware for end-to-end service guarantees
- Testbed and deployment
Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: